My phone must have sent you a different email than what I typed on it,
because I don't recall typing the word "only" anywhere on my previous
reply. Maybe my memory's going, but I also vaguely recall typing
something about them being criticised for not doing something AND being
criticised for do
I'm also willing to listen to criticism of the chapter, and I promise I'll do
my best to address any issues that I can, as long as it does not fall directly
within the operational remit of the staff.
I don't share the concern about the jump in membership. All the reports I have
seen indicate th
Once again my post is (to me) a header and blank text, but others can evidently see it, which is something. Katie seems to see the only possible problem as the chapter getting criticised... John/JohnbodOn 10 April 2018 at 18:57 wikimediauk-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:Send Wikimediauk-l ma
" though you are right to imply that the chapter is over-sensitive to
criticism... "
John, I must have missed that bit as I didn't see Katie imply that at all.
If anything, I think the chapter receives, and always has received, a lot
of unwarranted criticism from people who have ill-defined issues
We welcome constructive criticism, and I am happy to listen to any members'
concerns and ideas for improving Chapter-Community cohesion and
communication. :)
John Lubbock
Communications Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 203 372 0767
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As very often in recent years, I got a notification of my post sent an hour or so ago, with completely blank text. Yet Katie has clearly seen it, as she quotes me. Have others also got blanks? Can the rather cryptic instructions for replies be clarified, or is there some bug? I get the digest ve
Thanks Stevie. We are trying to work on an integrated communications and
membership strategy to grow the membership further. As always there are
capacity issues as to what we can do with the number of staff and funding
we have, but I am always willing to listen to people's ideas for how we
could re
Exactly what Katie says. The chapter can't win here. It gets criticised if
membership doesn't grow because some see it as a kind of failure. Then,
when the chapter grows its membership it is seen as some kind of entryist
threat. I find it particularly notable that these criticisms come from the
sam
Dear Fae,
My memory could be failing me, but I thought it was explained at the AGM
that the increase was a result of asking donors to become members.
It sounds like you are more interested in the 'how' of the process and the
'who' as you seem dissatisfied with the answer to *why* there was an
inc
Oh I don't know, maybe this "yawning gap" wouldn't be so wide if the chapter
don't get criticised for both not increasing its membership numbers and having
increased its membership numbers.
Just a wide guess
KTC
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As I recall, the "successful membership drive" consisted in offering donors to convert some of their donation into a chapter sub. I doubt anyone knows who most of them are, and I doubt a high proportion know much about the movement or the chapter, beyond the experience of a reader. Some of course
> On 10 April 2018 at 11:41 Fæ wrote:
>
> It appears that the jump in numbers was a one-off event, there has
> been no continued growth since whatever happened.
I don't know what happened. I did correspond with the office about a prompt to
renew. One could simulate such a "one-off event" by si
Yes, at the AGM the tripling of membership numbers was explained as
being due to an increase in members joining. No meaningful facts were
presented to the members, but the impression given by the Chair and
the CEO was that there would be more information publicly available.
My question was "why".
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